Toaster



' May 19, 1925.

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y UNITED ,sTATrs PATENT oF 1,538,551 FICE.

JACOB M. mams, or NEW .YOEJLN Y., Assr'eNoE To FULTON ABELL COMPANY, OF

NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION or NEW rom; l

ToAsTER.

Appncation 'filed January 3o, 1923. serial, No. 615,872.

` To all whom t may cof/1.067%.'

Be it known that I JACOB M. HARRIS, a

' citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, county of Kings, and State oNew York, have invented [a certain new and useful Improvement in Toasters,

all)` door lowered;

of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates'to vertical toasters in which4 a central heating element is disposed between toast supporting grids against lwhich the slices of bread rest while being toasted. In such toasters it has been common practice to have doors hinged atthe lower edges at the/'bottom of the toaster, adapted when in their closed position to hold the toast against the grid and in their open position to form a tray into which the toast may fall. It'has further been customary tol have some kind of a toast support attached to the lower part of the door so that when the door is opened the toast is automatically and by that same motion'dumped into the tray, generally in such a way as to cause the toast to be reversed when it is again applied to the grid by restoring the door to its closed position. v

I have found that it is not always desirable to have 'the toast dumped simultaneously with the opening of the door. In my il l present invention have arranged a combination of devices whereby the toast rests on a pivoted support independent of the door, the independent support having a handle of its own for retracting the same and dumpingthe toast and a spring of its own for returning the support to its normal toast supporting position.

In the accompanying drawings which form part of this specification- Fig. 1 represents a vertical transverse section of a toaster embodying my invention;

F 2 a side elevation of the same with a Fig. 3 represents a transverse section .of

` another'form that my invention may take;

and

Fig. 4 a side elevation of the same ore door lowered.

1 may 'represent a suitable base upon which is mounteda framework 2'v having a top 3. The heaterelement isshown at 4 and is supported by a framework 5 and connected with electric terminals 6. Grids 7 are mounted on aframe in planes` approx i' matelyjpara'llel to the heater element.. 'Pivwith oted at 8 at the lower edges are hinged doors 9 .which can be pulled down in the lowered position by handles l0, while springs" 11 tend to restore them to their vertical position. Between the lower edges of the doors and the lower parts ofthe grids are interposed toast supports 12 which may be in the form of rollers as shown'in Figs. 1 and 2. Such a roller is provided Vwithhandles 13, by `which it may be turned in a direction away from the' grid so as to dump the toast supported on it while a spring 14 serves to return the roller' to its normal position. A pin 15, fastened to the roller impinging against a stop 16 limits the backward.J throw of the roller.

The toast support may be in the form of a rocking plate 17 as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, which plate may have ears 18 through which a pivot shaft 19 may pass to form a hinge. A stopf20 will limit the toast support in its backward swing under the action of the spring 21, and' a handle 22 may provide means wherebyA the 'toast support canbe rocked forward so as to dump the toast onA to the. door'9 when the latter is inl its lowered position. I

By a combination offthis kind there is produced'a toaster having greater variabil` i 2. The combination in a toaster havin l a vertical rid, a door hinged at--the bottom and a roc ing pivoted toast support inde.

pendent of the doorbetween the door and the grid, a spring tendingto hold the said toast support against a fixed stop and a handle for re-tracting the support against the action. ofthel lspring for dumping the toast.

3. A vertical toaster. comprising in combination a gridgapproximately vertical, a spring closed door hinged at itslower'endfor holding the toast against'the grid when in its closed position and for catchingv the the door.

. 4. A vertical toaster comprising in com-I bination a grid approximately vertical, a spring closed door hinged at its lower end` for holding the toast against the grid when in its closed position and for catching the toast when in its open position and a spring actuated roller toast support between the grid land the door for supporting the toast independently of the door and adapted when rolled back to dump the toast on to the door,

Aboth door and roller having operating han-v4 dles.

5,. 'A vertical toaster comprising a grid approximately vertical, a door hinged at its 20 lower edge for holding the toast against the grid when in its closed position and for catching the toast when in its open position,l

a toast-support independent of the door and located between the grid andthe door, and 25 means operable independently of the door for moving the lower edgev of the toast outwardly from the toast-support to permit`it to slide uponthe open door for the purpose of reversing the same.

JACOB M; HARRIS 

